Poetry Quote by Khalil Gibran — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”

“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”

“Truly do we live on earth?”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language. Thus, in translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator.”

“দিতে পার একশ' ফানুস এনে”

“if we must”

“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit.”